HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR: Bill Kugelman has lived almost 98 years. He feels future generations should learn the hard lessons that nearly killed him almost 80 years ago.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Human history is marked by cruelty so deep people may find it hard to believe it actually happened. But there are survivors to bear witness and urge us to learn from the horrors humans can inflict.
He was a teenager, living in Poland when the Nazis sent him and his family to concentration camps. For him the first camp was Auschwitz, then a smaller camp called Kaufering. There was forced labor and not enough food to hold off the ache of starvation. “You just did not react to things anymore. It's just like you beat the dead horse. That was it. That's the way we reacted to the punishment of the guards.”
After a few years in Sweden the family moved to New York. Kugelman started as a stock boy in a shoe store and was eventually able to open a shoe store.
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